Category - Social Science
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Feral City: On Finding Liberation in Lockdown New York
HardcoverOriginal price $27.95Original price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /A Vulture Best Memoir of 2022 A Kirkus Best Nonfiction Book of 2022 A Bookforum Favorite Book of 2022 What happens when an entire social class ab...
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I'm Afraid of Men
HardcoverOriginal price $16.00 - Original price $16.00Original price $16.00$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Named a Best Book by: The Globe and Mail, Indigo, Out Magazine, Audible, CBC, Apple, Quill & Quire, Kirkus Reviews, Brooklyn Public Library, ...
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Gender(s)
PaperbackOriginal price $15.95 - Original price $15.95Original price $15.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Why gender is strange, even when it's played straight, and how race and money are two of its most dramatic ingredients.In this volume in the MIT ...
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Transgender Warriors: Making History from Joan of Arc to Dennis Rodman
PaperbackOriginal price $25.95Original price $25.95 - Original price $25.95Original price $25.95Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /“The foundational text that gave me life-changing context, helping me to understand who I was and who came before me.”—Tourmaline, activist and f...
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The Souls of Cyberfolk: Posthumanism as Vernacular Theory Volume 13
PaperbackOriginal price $26.00 - Original price $26.00Original price $26.00$38.99$38.99 - $38.99Current price $38.99| /In The Souls of Cyberfolk, Thomas Foster traces the transformation of cyberpunk from a literary movement into a multimedia cultural phenomenon. He ...
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Deep Gossip
PaperbackOriginal price $21.50 - Original price $21.50Original price $21.50$29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /Henry Abelove, literary critic, astute historian, and pioneer in queer studies, offers interdisciplinary views on the connections between politics,...
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Our Women on the Ground: Essays by Arab Women Reporting from the Arab World
PaperbackOriginal price $17.00Original price $17.00 - Original price $17.00Original price $17.00Current price $16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Nineteen Arab women journalists speak out about what it’s like to report on their changing homelands in this first-of-its-kind essay collection, ...
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Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /Killing the Black Body remains a rallying cry for education, awareness, and action on extending reproductive justice to all women. It is as cruci...
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Gendered Fortunes: Divination, Precarity, and Affect in Postsecular Turkey
HardcoverOriginal price $99.95 - Original price $99.95Original price $99.95$118.99$118.99 - $118.99Current price $118.99| /In Gendered Fortunes, Zeynep K. Korkman examines Turkey's commercial fortunetelling cafés where secular Muslim women and LGBTIQ individuals navigat...
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West African Folk Tales
PaperbackOriginal price $8.95 - Original price $8.95Original price $8.95$11.99$11.99 - $11.99Current price $11.99| /Folk tales around the world, observes the author, often contain similar narratives, providing, perhaps, yet another example of the universal brot...
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Gendered Fortunes: Divination, Precarity, and Affect in Postsecular Turkey
PaperbackOriginal price $26.95 - Original price $26.95Original price $26.95$38.99$38.99 - $38.99Current price $38.99| /In Gendered Fortunes, Zeynep K. Korkman examines Turkey's commercial fortunetelling cafés where secular Muslim women and LGBTIQ individuals navigat...
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Policing Egyptian Women: Sex, Law, and Medicine in Khedival Egypt
HardcoverOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /Policing Egyptian Women delineates the intricate manner in which the modern state in Egypt monitored, controlled, and policed the bodies of subalte...
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Improbable Women: Five Who Explored the Middle East
HardcoverOriginal price $29.95Original price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Zenobia was the third-century Syrian queen who rebelled against Roman rule. Before Emperor Aurelian prevailed against her forces, she had seized al...
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Representing Modern Istanbul: Urban History and International Institutions in Twentieth Century Beyoglu
PaperbackOriginal price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95$55.99$55.99 - $55.99Current price $55.99| /Following the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, Istanbul would lose its position as capital yet remain a crucial urban centre in the new Turkish repu...
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Speak, Bird, Speak Again: Palestinian Arab Folktales
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /By combining their expertise in English literature and anthropology, Ibrahim Muhawi and Sharif Kanaana bring to these folktales an integral method ...
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The School of Hillah and the Formation of Twelver Shi'i Islamic Tradition
HardcoverOriginal price $115.00 - Original price $115.00Original price $115.00$141.99$141.99 - $141.99Current price $141.99| /Against the background of long-standing narratives in which Twelver Shi'ism is viewed as fundamentally authoritarian, The School of Hillah and the ...
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Alpha: Abidjan to Paris
HardcoverOriginal price $24.99Original price $24.99 - Original price $24.99Original price $24.99Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /Doctors Without Borders PrizePEN Promotes AwardGLLI (Global Literature in Libraries Initiative) Translated YA Book Prize ShortlistCILIP Kate Gree...
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Orientalism
PaperbackOriginal price $19.00Original price $19.00 - Original price $19.00Original price $19.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /A groundbreaking critique of the West's historical, cultural, and political perceptions of the East that is—three decades after its first publica...
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The Soul of a Woman
HardcoverOriginal price $22.99Original price $22.99 - Original price $22.99Original price $22.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Notes From Your BooksellerWith a liberated perspective and knowing wisdom that certain age and retrospection can bestow, Soul of a Woman is an op...
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Islam, Revival, and Reform: Redefining Tradition for the Twenty-First Century
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$45.99$45.99 - $45.99Current price $45.99| /Rooted in the world historical methodology of John O. Voll, this collection brings together a diverse group of scholars to investigate the ongoing ...
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The City After Property: Abandonment and Repair in Postindustrial Detroit
PaperbackOriginal price $28.95 - Original price $28.95Original price $28.95$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /In The City after Property, Sara Safransky examines how postindustrial decline generates new forms of urban land politics. In the 2010s, Detroit go...
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Pigmentocracies: Ethnicity, Race, and Color in Latin America
PaperbackOriginal price $37.50 - Original price $37.50Original price $37.50$47.99$47.99 - $47.99Current price $47.99| /Pigmentocracies--the fruit of the multiyear Project on Ethnicity and Race in Latin America (PERLA)--is a richly revealing analysis of contemporary ...
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Caribbean Folk Tales: Stories from the Islands and the Windrush Generation
HardcoverOriginal price $22.95Original price $22.95 - Original price $22.95Original price $22.95Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Caribbean folk tales set alongside local reminiscences of 1950s migration from the Caribbean to Britain Caribbean islands are rich in oral stories...
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The Force of Witness: Contra Feminicide
PaperbackOriginal price $25.95 - Original price $25.95Original price $25.95$37.99$37.99 - $37.99Current price $37.99| /In The Force of Witness Rosa-Linda Fregoso examines the contra feminicide movement in Mexico and other feminist efforts to eradicate gender violenc...
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